About Momentum
Momentum Human Capital Advisors is a strategic human capital advisory firm that empowers leaders to inspire and motivate their teams while fostering inclusive cultures that cultivate innovation and resilience. Founded by former Chief People Officers, Momentum brings a practitioner's lens to every engagement — combining deep operational experience with advisory rigor to help organizations optimize their most critical asset: their people.
Jamie O'Brien serves Momentum as a Senior Advisor — Leadership, providing executive coaching, leadership assessment, and leadership development expertise to Momentum's client engagements. This role extends our reach into larger, more complex organizational challenges where human capital strategy and leadership development must work in concert.
Services and Capabilities
Momentum provides a comprehensive suite of human capital services. Their Executive Search and Talent Acquisition practice is designed to identify, attract, and place high-impact professionals aligned with a company's strategic vision — leveraging deep industry expertise to strengthen leadership teams at the most critical levels.
Their HR and Talent Advisory services help businesses optimize their workforce across the full talent lifecycle: talent acquisition strategy, leadership development, performance management, and organizational design. Momentum helps organizations build the systems and practices that turn talent strategy into business results.
Through Organizational Design, Momentum helps companies unlock their full potential by creating structures that drive efficiency, agility, and long-term success. This work often goes hand-in-hand with leadership coaching — because new organizational designs require leaders who can operate effectively within them.
The MomentumIQ Framework
Momentum's proprietary MomentumIQ framework is a data-driven tool that quantifies the projected financial impact of workforce improvements. The MIQ Index links changes in culture, talent, and leadership directly to gains in profitability, productivity, and operational efficiency. This analytical rigor means that leadership development and human capital investments can be measured and justified with the same discipline applied to any other strategic initiative.
What This Means for You
When your organization's challenges sit at the intersection of leadership development and broader human capital strategy, our affiliation with Momentum creates a seamless path from coaching individual leaders to addressing the systemic organizational factors that shape leadership effectiveness. Whether you need to strengthen your leadership bench through executive search, redesign your organization for greater agility, or align your talent strategy with your business strategy, we can bring Momentum's full capabilities to bear — with the trust and continuity of working with a coach who already understands your context.